Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Cartesian Coordinate System
This lesson plan contains a learning exercise for students to familiarize themselves with the Cartesian Coordinate System and its many uses in the world of mathematics. Contains links to explanations of terms and concepts associated with...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Coordinate Grid and Geometry
Students make connections between the coordinate grid and Geometry by finding the distance of line segments using the coordinate plane. This lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Coordinate Grid (Day 2)
The students will be learning about the coordinate grid through the use of multiple learning styles and real-life examples. Space is needed since students will be actively moving! This lesson plan includes slides containing notes and...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
This lesson plan helps students understand how to graph ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. Lots of resources are available to teachers and students at this website.
Other
Soft Chalk Llc.: Polygons in the Coordinate Plane
This site provides short lesson reviews on how to plot points on a coordinate plane to form polygons. It also gives quick checks in between.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Coordinate Grid: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this lesson about the coordinate grid, students will be able to identify x- and y-axes, point of origin, quadrants, coordinates, and ordered pairs, and read, interpret, and plot points in any of the quadrants.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using a Coordinate Grid (Day 1)
The students will be learning about the coordinate grid through the use of multiple learning styles and real life examples.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Cartesian Coordinate Plane
This lesson consists of two PowerPoint presentations that use animation (motion) to demonstrate how to obtain a 1-1 mapping between a plane and ordered pairs of Real numbers. These can be teacher presented or if you have enough PCs...
Doina Popovici
Math Play: Coordinate Plane Basketball Game
A basketball game with multiple choice questions about the coordinate plane system.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Locating Points on the Cartesian Graph
In this interactive, students use clues and logic to plot the location of aquatic animals on a Cartesian graph that represents the four cardinal directions. The three riddles in the interactive, including one that requires students to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Plane Ole Plottinghttp
Students will develop an understanding of the Cartesian plane through questioning and reasoning. Students will also gain a deeper understanding of the four quadrants within the coordinate system.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lessons: Polar Coordinates
Introduces students to graphing in the polar coordinate plane.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Next Dimension
The purpose of this lesson plan is to teach students about the three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. It is important for structural engineers to be confident graphing in 3D in order to be able to describe locations in space to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 11.1 Descriptions of Events
In a coordinate proof, geometric statements using algebra and the coordinate plane.
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Graphing
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that take a look at the Cartesian (or Rectangular) coordinate system. Provides definitions of ordered pairs, coordinates, quadrants, and x and y-intercepts.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Arithmetic Practice W/ Ordered Pairs
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan to have students practice simple computation that results in them graphing their answers. If they are accurate they will have a straight line. Students use an interactive...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plot Numbers on the Complex Plane
Given a complex number, plot its corresponding point on the complex plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Parallelogram: (Coordinate Geometry)
Students are able to manipulate a parallelogram on a coordinate grid to explore properties of a parallelogram and then calculate the distance of the sides, altitude, and area. The resource also includes links to further explain important...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Line of Best Fit
Use this activity to practice how to enter a set of data, plot the data on a coordinate grid, and determine the equation for a line of best fit.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Translations
These activities provide an opportunity for students to explore translations both on and off of a coordinate plane.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Walk a Thon 1
A performance task where students fill in the missing values on a table, plot the corresponding points in the coordinate plane, and find the two unit rates that are associated with this proportional relationship.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.g Finding Isosceles Triangles
This task asks students to examine three triangles in the coordinate plane and explain why they are isosceles triangles. Aligns with 8.G.B.8.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Functions and Graphing
An overview of functions and graphing on a coordinate plane.
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Plane
Learn about planes with this useful reference guide. Provides a detailed definition and examples that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.